Jump to full article: USA Today, 2009-10-11
Author: Lindsey Anderson, USA TODAY
Intro: If you break smokers down by their occupations, the workers who are most likely to smoke are in the food-service industry, says a report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
Out of all U.S. full-time employees ages 18 to 64, more than 33.6 million (28% of the total) smoked cigarettes in the past month. Yet almost 45% of food-service workers reported smoking cigarettes in that time.
Construction workers and miners are the second-highest group with a rate of 42.9%.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, those who work in education, training and library fields are least likely to be smokers; their rate is 12.3%. . . .
The study could make the workplace an ideal place to educate the public on the dangers of smoking, the leading cause of preventable death in the USA, says Peter Delany, director of the substance abuse agency's Office of Applied Studies.
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